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Raymond Burr looks at four real-life mysteries: The 1982 disappearance and death of Don Kemp, a New York man who went to Wyoming to research a book on the Lincoln assassination. The police claim Kemp died in a blizzard. His family suspects homicide. Businessman Roger Wheeler Sr. is gunned down in the parking lot of a Tulsa, Oklahoma Country Club in 1981. Police feel Wheeler's death may be related to a Jai Lai business he oversaw, and the later unsolved deaths of three other men. Pat Mealbach believes she is the Siamese twin of a member of the Dodge auto family, and now heir to the family fortune. The manhunt for Terry Lee Conner, and Joseph Daugherty, two dangerous bank robbers who held a bank president's family hostage overnight. Includes update. Plus a review of wanted fugitives on the FBI's ten most wanted list.

Karl Malden hosts a second anthology of dramatizations of actual events. A report on the unsolved 1986 disappearance of 26 year-old Wanda Jean Mays, who vanished while spending the night with relatives. They awoke to find her bedroom door locked, and the window in her room broken. Her family fears she may have suffered a mental break and wandered off. John Burns is wanted for the 1969 murder of his mistress, Eleanor Farber. Police believe his identity is a total fraud. 18 year-old Kyra Cook of Longview, Washington is stricken with amnesia and trying to recall the circumstances leading to the loss of her memory. A report on con-women who drug and rob men they solicit in bars. The story of two women who vanished five years apart after having dinner with the same man, Robert Weeks, aka Robert Smith.

Karl Malden hosts a program examining real-life mysteries. Wanted: The dragnet for a serial bomber who leaves his deadly devices around college campuses, and also sends them through the mail (later nicknamed the Unabomber). Updates: Reports on the captures of John Burns and Robert Weeks; both were profiled on the previous special,and arrested as a result of viewer tips. Lost Loves: The search for Jack Lutter, an airline pilot wanted for bigamy. Final Appeal: Glen Consagra is serving two consecutive life sentences after pleading guilty to a 1978 double homicide. He claims he pled out to save his life, and that he is innocent. Lost Heirs: The hunt for the heirs of George Marsh, a recluse who died in a Kansas City nursing home in 1982 leaving behind an estate worth $175,000.

Robert Stack hosts this fourth edition of the program that uses interviews with witnesses and reenactments to examine real-life mysteries. Wanted: Dave Davis is wanted for the 1980 murder of his wife, Shannon Mohr. Police speculate he killed her for the insurance money. Unexplained Death: Housewife Aileen Conway was found dead in a burning car on a desolate country road in Oklahoma in the spring of 1986. Her husband, Pat, wants to know the truth behind her unusual death. Mysterious Legends: The saga of Glen and Bessy Hyde, two newlyweds who vanished on a river rafting trip in the Grand Canyon in 1928. Missing Persons: The unsolved 1985 disappearance of Dottie Caylor, an Oakland, California housewife suffering from agoraphobia. Her husband, Jule, is a suspect.

Robert Stack examines the real-life mysteries. Wanted: Ex-con Jerry Strickland, and his 16 year-old lover, Missy Munday, are wanted for a 1987 gas station holdup in Pontiac, Michigan that resulted in one murder. Final Appeal: Michael Scott Martin is serving a life sentence for allegedly robbing a Garland, Texas gas station in 1979, despite the fact that five separate eyewitnesses can corroborate his alibi. Unexplained Death: A report on the bizarre 1984 death of 17 year-old Kurt McFall. McFall's father believes his son was killed as a result of his involvement with a Satanic cult. Lost Heirs: The search for the heirs of newsstand owner Charles Scheel, who died in 1987, and left behind an estate worth $67,000.

Host Robert Stack details unsolved crimes including the case of an Iowa credit union employee who disappeared with more than $1 million in untraceable bills. The Unexplained: Hoping for some new leads, Hagerstown, Maryland police detectives bring Dorothy Allison to the scene of an unsolved homicide. Lost Loves: The 1986 discovery of a bag of letters written by servicemen in WWII that are still waiting to be delivered 40 years after the war's end. Wanted: The dragnet for Joe Sheppard, the alleged killer of two young women, who has been on the run since his escape from a Tennessee jail in 1978.

Cases include: Amnesia: Two women are violently attacked in the laundry room of their Woonsocket, Rhode Island apartment building in 1982. One woman, Doreen Picard, is killed, the other, Susan Laferte, survives, but is stricken with amnesia and unable to remember the details of the crime. The killer is still at large. Wanted: The dragnet for Louis Carlucci aka "The Heart Attacker," a cold hearted con-man who makes his living by marrying women and stealing their money. Updates: Reports on the conviction and sentencing of Robert Weeks, and the identification of one of the killers responsible for the murder of an executive who operated a Jai Lai business. Wanted: 43 year-old Diane Brodbeck, a Wellsville, Pennsylvania housewife, is wanted for helping convicted murderer and pen pal, John Yount, escape from prison in 1986. Treasure: A cipher may lead to the discovery of 21 million dollars worth of gold and silver allegedly buried somewhere in the hills of Bedford County, Virginia by a miner named "Beale" in 1821.

The occasional series begins a weekly run. Cases include: Missing Persons: Gail Delano, a 34 year old divorced mother had placed personal ads in a local Maine newspaper. Later, Delano reportedly disappeared after meeting a man named "John" whom she apparantly met through the personals. Also, UFO sightings over Gulf Breeze, Fla. and a fugitive wanted for two murders, who escaped from a Tennessee prison more than 10 years ago.

Cases include: Unexplained Death: A report on the strange deaths of Don Henry and Kevin Ives, two Bryant, Arkansas teens who were hit by a train late one night in 1987. Their parents believe they were murdered. Fraud: The search for missing baseball memorabilia illegally obtained by Dennis Walker, a con-man who later took his own life in a Las Vegas hotel room. Mysterious Legends: The saga of skyjacker D.B. Cooper who parachuted out of a 727 with $200,000 in cash in 1971. This segment examines the possibility that Cooper survived the fall. Update: An update on a previous report on a prison escapee.

This Halloween edition delves into the following cases: The Unexplained: A report on the Queen Mary, a luxury liner docked in Long Beach, that is reputed to be haunted by a sailor's ghost. Staff and guests on the ship claim to have had ghostly encounters. The Unexplained: A retired Georgia couple, Jim and Kay Tatum, whose home is located on a Civil War battle site, claim to be the victims of a poltergeist that haunts their home. The Unexplained: Allen and Debbie Tallman and their children who lived in Horicon, Wisconsin reportedly were terrorized by demonic forces after purchasing a used bunk bed. The Unexplained: Ghostly goings-on at the General Wayne Inn in Philadelphia. Guests at the inn report a ghost who would blow on the back of the necks of the female guests.

Cases include: Unexplained Death: An investigation into the infamous Son of Sam shootings that occurred throughout New York City during the summer of 1977. This segment probes the possibility that David Berkowitz did not act alone. Part 1 of 2. Lost Heirs: Walter "Curly" Green was an Omaha, Nebraska man who died of a heart attack in 1978. Green left behind a large fortune of over two hundred thousand dollars and currently his fortune has been unclaimed. Unexplained Death: Harold and Thelma Swain were shot and killed by a mysterious stranger in the Rising Daughters Baptist Church in Waverly, Georgia in 1985. A member of a bible group encountered the killer, who may have dropped a pair of glasses at the scene. Treasure: Treasure hunters are searching for a buried treasure, originally buried in 1821, of gold and silver located somewhere in Bedford County in Virginia.

Cases include: Fraud: The 1981 shipwreck of the a sailboat called the Freedom 2 off the coast of Tahiti is exposed as a clever insurance scam created by two con men named Bob Dozier and Jeff Russell. Unexplained Death: Part 2 of an investigation into the infamous Son of Sam shootings that occurred throughout New York City during the summer of 1977. This segment probes the possibility that David Berkowitz did not act alone and that he was part of a Satanic cult. Part 2 of two. Missing Persons: The 1988 abduction of Annie Laurie Hearin, the wife of wealthy Jackson, Mississippi businessman Robert Hearin. Her husband complied with the kidnapper's demands, but she has yet to be returned. Also, the search by a British woman, now 45, for her American military-officer father.

Cases include: Missing Persons: Christi Nichols, a housewife and young mother who lived in Nebraska disappeared around Christmas time in 1987. Rumors have surfaced that her husband, Mark Nichols, may have been responsible for her disappearance. Updates: The fate of Gail Delano is revealed. Apparently she had staged her disappearance and later committed suicide in a hotel room. Wanted: This segment investigates an escape at California's San Quentin prison where an inmate named Mark Adams, a convicted murderer escaped in 1986. Authorities speculate on how Adams may have escaped. Fraud: Steven Cox, a businessman from Medford, Oregon, apparently vanished with investors money. Unexplained Death: Barbara Jean Horn was a 4-year old girl who lived in Philadelphia. During the summer of 1988, Horn disappeared and was later found stuffed inside a TV box. Eyewitnesses helped in creating a sketch of the suspect.

Cases include: The Unexplained: Two boys in Washington state run across a strange rock in the forest that was marked with strange symbols. This discovery has seemingly led to a string of good luck for the boys' family. Unexplained Death: Police fear there may be a connection between the unsolved 1982 murder of one Catholic priest in Santa Fe, New Mexico and the unexplained disappearance of another from Montana two years later. Also, the death of a 17-year-old Ohio youth, who disappeared after attending a Halloween party and police search for those responsible for extortion letters sent to various people in Lancaster, California. Also sightings of the men responsible for a insurance scam involving a boat.

Cases include: Wanted: Charlie Sigmin of Blythville, Arkansas was shot to death in the Missouri home of his ex-wife's boyfriend in 1986. Sigmin's ex-wife, Anne, claims the shooting was in self defense. However, she and her boyfriend have since disappeared. The Unexplained: A report on the phenomena of "missing time" and the stories of two people, a US Air Force officer, and a dance instructor, who claim they were abducted and experimented on by extraterrestrials.

Cases include: Amnesia: 16 year-old Jenny Pratt is left with brain damage after being struck with a board while on a motorcycle ride with her older boyfriend, Curtis Croft, a former drug dealer. Authorities believe a group of teenagers may have targeted the young couple. Fraud: The search for Jack Quinn, the ex-vice president of a Florida security firm who walked off the job with over one million dollars in untraceable cash in 1988. Wanted: The search for the killers of two lovable sea lions, known as "Bruno" and "Bobo." The sea lions were known to frequent a Southern California beach and had served as a source of entertainment for local residents. Unexplained Death: The strange case of Clarence Roberts, a Nashville, Indiana businessman who reportedly died in two separate house fires. A house fire in 1970, apparently had claimed Clarence and then ten years later, another house fire claimed Geneva, but in the second, Clarence's body was found again. Also: updates on previous reports on the 1978 murders of two Tennessee women; and a suspected Los Angeles bank robber.

Cases include: Unexplained Death: 33-year-old Marilu Geri was shot to death in her home on Valentine's Day in 1986. Her family believe that Geri's husband Stephen was responsible for the murder in an attempt to collect the proceeds from her estate. Missing Persons: The search for Matthew Chase, a 22 year-old who disappeared while using an ATM late at night in Los Angeles. An ATM camera captured Chase and an unknown man while making a transaction. Lost Loves: A Hungarian family's search for an American soldier who befriended them during World War II.

Reports on the death of a California deejay in October 1988 and the disappearance of a Pennsylvania man on Valentine's Day 1980. Also: an update on the case of an Oregon man who vanished with investors' money. (See the episode that aired on November 16, 1988)

Cases include: Wanted: Lee Selwyn, a popular Los Angeles deejay and motorcyclist, had a deadly encounter with another motorist in 1988 who, after a dangerous chase down the streets, ran Selwyn down and killed him. Missing Persons: Michael Rosenblum disappeared on Valentine's Day in 1980. The investigation into his disappearance has led to a bizarre scandel that seems to implicate that a local police department may have been in on a cover-up. Fraud: A sleazy con man going by the name of Arthur Frankford wined and dined single seniors who live in Florida retirement communities. His victims would later discover that Franklin had taken off with their money and jewelry. Updates: Steven Cox, an Oregon businessman who vanished with investors' money has been captured.

Cases include: Missing Persons: The 1986 disappearance of 14 year-old Jeremy Bright, who was last seen at an Oregon carnival. Rumors abound that Bright may have been shot by bullies who used him as a human target. Lost Heirs: The lost heirs of prospector Dan Willans could stand to inherit nearly 3 million dollars. Includes update. Missing Persons: A report on a shrimp boat lost off the Oregon coast in 1986. Unexplained Death: The unsolved 1988 shooting of Officer John Martin of the Lee County, Virginia Sheriff's Department. Wanted: Businessman Leo Koury is on the FBI's ten most wanted list for murder, attempted murder, extortion, assault, racketeering, fraud, and arson. Wanted: The 1988 abduction of 9 year-old Michaela Garecht from an Oakland, California shopping mall.

Cases include: Missing Persons: The vicious 1985 abduction of a newborn at gunpoint outside a New York hospital. Also, brief reports on two other missing babies. Unexplained Death: The senseless slaughter of wild horses in Nevada. Lost Loves: A report on New York "orphan train" passengers who are searching for their missing siblings. Wanted: The discovery of bizarre letters in a shopping mall indicating that Mikki Jo West, a missing 19 year-old from Missouri, has been killed. Also, a Los Angeles art fraud case.

Cases include: Missing Persons: The search for Angelo Desideri, a 57 year-old businessman and former monk who mysteriously vanished from his Phoenix, Arizona home in 1988. Unexplained Death: The Las Vegas search for the killers of 16 year-old Kathy Hobbs, murdered in 1987, and an anonymous caller who may have witnessed her abduction. Lost Loves: A Hungarian family is reunited with an American soldier who befriended them during World War II. Lost Loves: Bill Purinton searches for his sister, Jackie, who was lost when his family was split apart by adoption. The Unexplained: A report on a "face" found in NASA photographs of the surface of Mars.

Cases include: Special Report: The saga of Clarence Anglin, John Anglin, and Frank Morris, three inmates who planned and executed a daring water escape from the prison in 1962. Did they survive? For the purpose of the broadcast, UM contracted a team of professional rafters, and a tri-athlete to attempt the dangerous swim to shore. Also included are profiles of famous Alcatraz "residents" Al Capone, and Robert Stroud aka "The Birdman of Alcatraz". Wanted: Two bank robbers, Louis Bourgeois, and Jean-Marie Gagnon had been convicted of a 1977 Massachusetts bank robbery. The duo were incarcerated in Boston and later called to testify in a case in Illinois, however on the way back, they escaped from a police transport vehicle in 1985, during a traffic jam. Also, the search for a California couple wanted, according to this report, for the attempted murder of a police officer.

Cases include: Unexplained Death: Speculation that the unsolved 1988 shooting of race car driver Mickey Thompson, and his wife Trudy, may have been a contract hit. Updates: The capture of Jean-Marie Gagnon, a convicted bank robber who escaped from a police transport vehicle in 1985. Wanted: A profile of a clever Santa Barbara, California bank robber who super glued the teller's alarm buttons, and made off with nearly $140,000 in cash in the fall of 1987. Mysterious Legends: Bigfoot sightings in Pike's Peak, Colorado. Lost Heirs: The search for the heirs of George J. Stein. Stein left behind $106,000 in various bank accounts throughout the midwest. Unexplained Death: The dragnet for the killers of 16 year-old Joyce McClain, murdered in 1980, in East Millinocket, Maine.

Cases include: The Unexplained: Two true stories of near death experiences. Do such occurrences provide a glimpse of the afterlife? Wanted: The 1986 bank robbery of a Hollywood, California bank in which the robbers had used underground storm drains which allowed them to tunnel their way under the city streets and to the bank and into the bank vault. The robbers got away with over $2 million dollars. The tunneling robbers struck again at another bank and got away with $90,000. Also, an emotional meeting between the son of a missing World War II Navy captain and the German U-boat commander who sank his ship.

Cases include: Wanted: Don Davis is found dead in the desert, reportedly struck in the head with a jackhammer. Authorities are looking for the mysterious stranger that was seen with him just prior to his death. Mysterious Legends: An investigation into the possibility that after all this time, lawman, Pat Garrett did not kill Billy the Kid. Updates: The capture of two bank robbers, Louis Bourgeois, and Jean-Marie Gagnon, who escaped from a police transport vehicle in 1985. Wanted: Charles Mulet was a respected police officer until it was discovered that he was responsible for a series of child molestations, now he is on the run.

Cases include: Unexplained Death: The unsolved 1988 murder of 18 year-old Lisa Marie Kimmel. Witnesses claim to have seen Kimmel in the days after her disappearance and death. Treasure: The saga of the infamous "Lost Dutchman's Mine" in Arizona. Missing Persons: Thomas Hotard was found shot to death in his car which had been parked on a lovers lane at the edge of Lake Ponchatrain in Louisiana in 1956. The day before, Hotard had been seen with Audrey Moate who mysteriously vanished that same day. Some believe she may still be alive others believe her body may be at the bottom of the lake.

Cases include: Wanted: T.K. Hardy's bitter rivalry with fellow restaurateur, John Mooney turns ugly when Mooney is accused of hiring a hitman to kill Hardy. Fraud: Liz Carmichael is wanted for bilking investors out of millions with a fake automobile prototype called a Dale. Updates: A suspect has been captured in connection with the bizarre abduction of Annie Laurie Hearin. Unexplained Death: Tim McClure is the prime suspect in the murder of his mother, who was found shot to death in her car in a casino parking lot. Missing Persons: Charles Wickman was arrested and drug-releated charges were filed against him. His sister put up the bail and he has since vanished.

Cases include: Unexplained Death: A trip from Oregon to Wisconsin goes awry when Dexter Stefonek's car is found engulfed in flames in Montana. His body was later found dumped in a remote landfill; he had been shot twice in the head. Fraud: A phony "folk healer" in California named Jorge Cortez has been using people's superstitions in order to swindle people out of money. Updates: A lost heir to Dan Willians has come forward. Wanted: A Florida bank robber is on the loose and is nicknamed "Fumbles" due to his clumsy nature during the robberies. Wanted: Michael Wade Mohan, a California convict, has escaped captivity once thanks to an elaborate escape plan involving his wife Sharon and a second time in Arizona. A roll call of escaped fugitives: Larry Dennis Miller escaped in Missouri. Curtis Watson escaped in Virginia.

Cases include: Unexplained Death: Rose Hoffman's search for the bikers who allegedly murdered her 20 year-old son Gus in 1977. Updates: The body of 22 year-old Matthew Chase has been found. His killer is still at large. Fraud: Con-man Ron Rushton is wanted for bilking homeowners by way of a fraudulent real estate firm that would acquire title and supposedly make the homeowner's mortgage payments for them. Unexplained Death: The unsolved 1987 poisoning of Patsy Wright, a popular and wealthy Texas socialite. Lost Loves: The truth behind the fate of a US Army oil tanker that was sunk by a German U-boat in World War II. Updates: The apprehension of two Los Angeles seamen suspected of killing "Bobo" the sea lion.

Cases include: Wanted: The hunt for the killers of Julie Cross, a Secret Service agent murdered in 1980 during a botched robbery attempt. Fraud: Con-man Ron Rushton is wanted for bilking homeowners by way of a fraudulent real estate firm that would acquire title and supposedly make the homeowner's mortgage payments for them. Wanted: The search for the "bicycle bandit"; a bank robber who makes his getaways on a bicycle. Wanted: The FBI dragnet for Kathy Power, a former college coed and member of a militant group responsible for the 1970 shooting of a Boston police officer during a botched bank robbery. Mysterious Legends: A report on the possibility that two French aviators may have crossed the Atlantic before Charles Lindbergh.

Cases include: Treasure: The legend of a treasure buried beneath mountains in New Mexico that was allegedly discovered in 1937, and later confiscated by the U.S. government. Missing Persons: The search for Keri Lynn Nixon, a New York teenager who mysteriously vanished in 1987 during a trip to the local grocery store. A woman claims to have encountered Keri in South Carolina. Wanted: A segment exploring the messy divorce of a North Carolina doctor named David Rhodes who has been on the run after picking up his children for a visitation and never bringing them back. Unexplained Death: Theories swirl around the unsolved 1982 murder of appliance repairman Perman Gilbert.

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Wanted: Sheldon Weinberg and his two sons, Jay and Ronald lived in Manhattan and had been making millions of dollars in the medical care field. They had set up a clinic in an impoverished area in Brooklyn and quickly began to defraud the system and in the end got away with an estimated $28 million dollars from Medicaid. Also: an update on a Tennessee fugitive apprehended in Canada. Repeat segments including UFO sightings.

A report on the capture and arrest of an alleged swindler. Also: repeat stories on the search for a missing Nebraska mother; the dragnet for the killers of a Philidelphia child.

Included: updates on a Michigan man recently arrested in connection with the murder of his wife; and the apprehension of a California extortion-letter writer. Also: repeat segments on the search for the killers of an Ohio teenager; and puzzling tragedies involving two priests.

A report on the reunion of an American World War II veteran and a European refugee which resulted from a viewers tip. Also repeat segments on the slaughter of wild horses in Nevada; markings on the surface of Mars; and the search for the killers of a California teenager.

Included: a new report on the capture of an alleged Florida flimflam man. Also, repeat stories that aired on the episode from February 15, 1989.

Segments include a new report on the capture of an Iowa man charged with stealing from a credit union. Also, repeat stories that aired on the episode from February 22, 1989.

(repeat of March 1, 1989)

A segment on a New York man who, according to this report, escaped after being arrested for bigamy. Also, repeat segments on the search for a missing Wyoming woman; a reportedly haunted gold mine, and a Dutch miner who may have left behind an unclaimed fortune when he died.

New reports on the alleged abduction of a Mississippi millionaire and the capture of a Los Angeles man charged with art fraud. Also: repeat segments on a Georgia restaurant owner; the search for the kidnappers of a California girl; works of art stolen from museums.

A report on the Pennsylvania search for a child killer; an update on an April report about an Los Angeles man who reportedly swindled investors in a scheme to develop his futuristic Dale car; and a segment on homeless children in the early part of this century.

Cases include: Lost Loves: Dolores Valadez searches for the truth behind her strange past. Also, repeat stories that aired on April 12, 1989.

Reports on the reunion of two abducted New Jersey children with their maternal mother; and the search for the strangler of a Washington mother and daughter.